It may seem difficult to be not in Google's vast ecosystem. You could still try to use various alternatives to Google services. Here's what I use and recommend.

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The post discusses the author's decision to move away from Google's ecosystem due to privacy concerns, the desire to explore innovative alternatives, and support for open source solutions. It outlines various Google services and suggests alternatives like ProtonMail for email, DuckDuckGo for search, and Jitsi Meet for video conferencing. Replacing Google's document suite, photos, videos, and maps is noted as more challenging.

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Google made a genius move by buying YouTube. There’s no viable alternative right now, which is honestly a bit frustrating.

“If you really care about privacy then you shouldn’t use the internet at all”

Title : Moving Away from Google and when opened the article, then 10s google ad shows up all over the page 😁

I’ve tried a couple of times, and it doesn’t matter, you always end up going back to using something from Google. Whether it’s for friends, family, or people you know, you end up needing an account with them. Take, for example, the backups of your Android phone. You can “try” to stop using their apps, but with the monopoly they have today, it’s impossible to get out of their ecosystem.

I moved to Proton’s ecosystem years ago. All financial and medical emails go to that account. Didn’t want Google reading all my emails. Pass has a nice feature to do signups with a vanity email that is auto generated. VPN has been a great experience. Willing to pay for services that don’t resell my info.